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Delivering the Public Task in 2026: Aligning purpose, impact, and commercial performance

Last month, Dragonfish brought together public sector leaders for a closed-door roundtable – to wrestle with one shared challenge. How do you deliver public value, commercial performance and transformation at the same time, inside systems built for governance, assurance and risk?

Five themes emerged from the discussions; and the thread running through everything: Organisations making the strongest progress look at the whole system, not just strategy or transformation in isolation.

The five themes: 


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The series continues in September:

The Human System of Public Sector Productivity — what high-performing public organisations do differently to deliver.

Wednesday 23 September 2026 Runway East, Bloomsbury, London

Public sector leader? Get in touch to join us!
May '26 Roundtable participants including: Ordnance Survey, National Physical Laboratory, Seafish, NATS (National Air Traffic Services), UK Hydrographic Office, and FCDO Services (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Services).

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